The Divemaster course is your first level of professional training. Working closely with a SCUBA Heroes Instructor, you’ll fine-tune your dive skills, like perfecting the effortless hover, and refine your rescue skills so you anticipate and easily solve common problems. You’ll gain dive knowledge, management and supervision abilities so you become a role model to divers everywhere.

Through knowledge development sessions, water skills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities.

As a dive professional, you’ll need to have all your basic scuba equipment, including a dive computer, a dive knife, and at least two surface signaling devices. During practical skills exercises, like underwater mapping and search and recovery, you’ll use a compass, floats, marker buoys, lift bags and slates. SCUBA Heroes will also suggest additional gear that will be useful throughout your diving career.

Once certified, you will be considered a professional SCUBA diver and will pay annual dues plus carry liability insurance. You can then be hired by dive companies, charters, instructors and shops. After divemaster, you can train to become an assistant instructor and then instructor if you wish.